Tornado Rating unknown
Potosi Taylor County
“Brief touchdown near Potosi. (SJT)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Abilene Mar 10, 2026
The radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 2.25" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Abilene this day. At 2.25" — tennis ball — this is severe, roof-replacing hail: close to every roof inside the footprint becomes a claim candidate.
A tornado was also reported to the National Weather Service during this storm — see the ground reports below.
Largest hailstone
2.25"
≈ tennis ball · radar-estimated size aloft Homes in the hail footprint
28,416
Ground reports
7
6 hail · 1 tornadoThe most severe storm Abilene has seen in the last 12 months
Storm severity score
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
7.1 /10
- Hail size
- 56 /100
- Homes exposed
- 89 /100
- Ground truth
- 100 /100
Largest hailstone — the top predictor of roof damage.
How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.
Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.
How Abilene saw the hail — from two instruments
Each storm gets two readings: the radar signatures NEXRAD recorded as the cells passed overhead, and a modeled estimate of hail size in the air. They are independent surfaces, so a mismatch between them is expected — and worth reading.
Radar-estimated hail size
Radar-estimated hail size over the swath. The model reports the biggest stone the storm could sustain in the air; what actually fell may have been smaller.
Max size
2.25"
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Mar 10, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Abilene, so there is one map to show, not two.
Where Mar 10, 2026 sits in Abilene's hail record
This was Abilene's 2nd recorded hail day, arriving 4 days after the Mar 6, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 1st of the 10 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Abilene at 2.25" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Mar 10, 2026 convective day was bigger than Abilene: the same system put hail over 470 other tracked cities, 88 of them in Texas. Nearest: Hawley (14 miles northwest, up to 1"); Merkel (18 miles west, up to 1"); Clyde (19 miles southeast, up to 2.25").
These maps are stills from Abilene's Mar 10, 2026 storm. In the Overview app the same surfaces are live — radar updating in real time, radar-estimated hail size as it forms, and NWS spotter reports pinned where they're filed — with a radar replay you can scrub back over any past day.
What people on the ground reported
These are storm reports filed with the National Weather Service and released through the NOAA Storm Prediction Center — public-domain observations from spotters, the public, and NWS surveys. We quote each one exactly as filed.
Tornado reports
1 reportHail reports
6 reports Hail size 1"
2 NNE Abilene Taylor County
“1 inch hail reported via social media with images. (SJT)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1.25"
Potosi Taylor County
“Half dollar size hail reported via social media over Potosi. (SJT)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1.5"
Buffalo Gap Taylor County
“Social Media report of Ping Pong size hail over Buffalo Gap. (SJT)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 2.75"
Buffalo Gap Taylor County
“Media reported baseball size hail over Buffalo Gap. (SJT)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1"
1 S Buffalo Gap Taylor County
“1 inch hail reported with around 50 mph winds by trained spotter out of Buffalo Gap. (SJT)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1.75"
1 S Buffalo Gap Taylor County
“Golf Ball size hail reported. (SJT)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Storm forensics
Read from the arrival times and locations of the NOAA ground reports,
not a radar-measured storm track.
How the storm moved
Hail was reported over 23 minutes, from to .
Reports came from Potosi and Buffalo Gap — beyond Abilene itself.
What 2.25" hail means for Abilene roofs
Two-inch-plus hail punctures shingles, breaks skylights and windows, and dents anything soft. In the core of a footprint like this, close to every roof is a candidate for an insurance claim. Speed decides who writes those jobs.
What this storm is worth to a roofer
$341M
Potential roof exposure — 28,416 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
142 jobs
Illustrative work
~$2.1M
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around March 2028 — the window to reach these homeowners while it's still open. Deadlines vary by policy and state.
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Abilene hail history
← All hail in Abilene 10 recorded storm days in Abilene, TX
Other storms in Abilene
Jul 5, 2026
2" Signatures 2" Estimated 1.25"
3
ground reports 
Jun 6, 2026
1.75" Signatures 1.75" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed 
May 28, 2026
1.75" Signatures 1.75" Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed 
May 22, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Apr 17, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Apr 15, 2026
2" Estimated 2"
No ground reports filed 
Apr 11, 2026
0.75" Signatures 0.75"
No ground reports filed 
Apr 3, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Mar 6, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed
A storm day here is a convective day — it runs from noon to noon
UTC, so late-night hail is grouped with the afternoon storm that
spawned it rather than split across two calendar dates. Ground
reports are public-domain observations from the NOAA Storm
Prediction Center. Radar surfaces are detections and estimates,
not confirmed damage. Last updated Aug 3, 2026.